The tale of the delusional peacenik

Coverage of Susan Lindauer is in 'U.S. woman charged with spying for Iraq', 'How Susan Lindauer Was Caught', this, this, and this. The indictment is here. An email that appears to be from her is here.

From this article:

"I'm an anti-war activist and I'm innocent," Lindauer told WBAL-TV as she was led to a car outside the Baltimore FBI office. "I did more to stop terrorism in this country than anybody else. I have done good things for this country. I worked to get weapons inspectors back to Iraq when everyone else said it was impossible. I'm very proud and I'll stand by my achievements."

Apparently the person she tried to tell about her Iraq connections was Andrew Card.

The preliminary position of The Lonewacko Blog is that she is a delusional peacenik who thought she was going to broker a peace deal. If all she got was $10,000 it can't have been for the money, especially because that appears to have been for expenses. The fact that she approached someone about her links to Iraq indicates that she thought what she was doing was OK or would be seen as OK. If it's true that she turned over the names of Iraqi dissidents to the Iraqis that would tend to work strongly against the delusional dupe thesis.

UPDATE: For a laugh-out-loud report on this case, see the next post.

UPDATE 2: The NYT's report is entitled 'An Antiwar Activist Known for Being Committed Yet Erratic':

Susan P. Lindauer wore her liberal politics on her sleeve, as well as on her aging Mazda, where bumper stickers proclaimed her unabashed opposition to the Iraq conflict...

Joe Copeland, who supervised Ms. Lindauer in 1989 when she wrote editorials for The Everett Herald in Everett, Wash., said she was "the most liberal member of the editorial board at the time." Although he found Ms. Lindauer bright and pleasant, Mr. Copeland said, she also could be erratic, disappearing for long unexplained periods of the day.

"I certainly saw some signs of flakiness," he said...

UPDATE 3: There's much more than you ever wanted to know about Ms. Lindauer in this "she was the quiet type" type of article from one of the papers where she used to work.